Lewis & Short

dīs-ĭcĭo (or dissĭcio, Lucr. 3, 639; less correctly, dis-jĭcio), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [jacio], to throw asunder; to drive asunder; to scatter, disperse (freq. in poets and historians, esp. since the Aug. per.; not in Cic., Plaut., or Ter.).

  1. I. In gen.: partibus disjectis disque supatis, Lucr. 1, 651; cf. id. 1, 1020: materies, id. 2, 939: vis animaï (with dispertita and discissa), id. 3, 639: equi, id. 5, 400: in vasta urbe lateque omnibus disjectis moenibus, i. e. distributed, stretching out in various directions, Liv. 24, 2; cf. id. 24, 33 fin.: disjecta nube, Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134: nubes, Ov. M. 10, 179: nubila, id. ib. 1, 328: membra, id. ib. 3, 724; cf.: corpora ponto (with age diversos), Verg. A. 1, 70: rates, id. ib. 1, 43; cf.: naves passim, Liv. 30, 24: naves in aperta Oceani, Tac. A. 2, 23 et saep.: frontem mediam mentumque securi, Verg. A. 12, 308; cf.: scyphus in duas partes disjectus, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 3: crinem disjecta Venus, with dishevelled hair, Sil. 5, 203; of money, to squander, Val. Max. 3, 5, 2.
  2. II. In partic.
    1. A. Milit. t. t., to disperse, scatter, rout the enemy: ea (phalange) disjecta, Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 2; Liv. 44, 41; Pompeius ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 B.: Sall. C. 61, 3; id. J. 50, 6; Nep. Milt. 2 al.: hostium disjecta frangere, the scattered enemy, Amm. 29, 4.
    2. B. Pregn., to dash to pieces, lay in ruins, destroy; to frustrate, thwart, bring to naught.
      1. 1. Lit.: arcem a fundamentis, Nep. Timol. 3, 3: moenia urbium, id. ib. § 2; Ov. M. 12, 109: statuas, Suet. Caes. 75: sepulchra, id. ib. 81 al.: globum consensionis, to dissolve, Nep. Att. 8, 4: pecuniam, i. e. to squander, Val. Max. 3, 5, 2; cf. absol.: dide, disice, per me licet, Caecil. ap. Cic. Cael. 16, 37.
      2. 2. Trop. (i. q. discutere, II. B. 2.): dissice compositam pacem, Verg. A. 7, 339; so, pacem, Sil. 2, 295: rem, Liv. 2, 35: consilia ducis, id. 25, 14: cogitationem regiam, Vell. 1, 10: exspectationem novarum tabularum, Suet. Caes. 42.